VA - I Want My 80's Box! (3CD Box Set) (2001)

If you're looking for the roots of alternative rock or obscure college playlist fodder, look elsewhere; this is prime-time '80s pop chart glory, as seen on MTV (over and over and over). Though the songs here cover a breadth of style and genre (if not necessarily substance), there's a remarkable unity of purpose and hook-laden musical accomplishment that's sorely missed. If this collection woefully shortchanges hip-hop, it still underscores a distinctly irony-free era where style admittedly triumphed over substance, as opposed to the '90s, where style caricatured substance.

Tracklist:

CD 1:

01. Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
02. Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
03. Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
04. Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny
05. Rapture - Blondie
06. The Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me
07. Dazz Band - Let It Whip
08. Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
09. ABC - Poison Arrow
10. Asia - Heart Of The Moment
11. Toni Basil - Mickey
12. Kool & The Gang - Celebration
13. Squeeze - Tempted
14. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

CD 2:

01. Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
02. Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife
03. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
04. A-Ha - Take On Me
05. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
06. The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another
07. Big Country - In A Big Country
08. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
09. Madness - Our House
10. Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
11. The Motels - Suddenly Last Summe
12. Night Runner - Sister Christian
13. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
14. John Waite - Missing You

CD 3:

01. Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
02. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
03. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
04. Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonigh
05. Joe Perry/Run-D.M.C./Steven Tyler - Walk The Say
06. Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
07. Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love
08. Yello - Oh Yeah
09. Suzanne Vega - Luka
10. Chris de Burgh - The Lady In Red
11. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
12. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
13. Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
14. Steve Winwood - Higher Love